Five people, including four children, were injured in a knife attack in a park in the French city of Annecy.
The perpetrator of the attack is a 32-year-old refugee of Syrian nationality with no criminal record, who was arrested and also injured, according to local media.
The four minors are in very serious condition and an ambulance helicopter was needed for their immediate evacuation, local media reported, citing the prefecture (government delegation).
The two injured adults do not appear to be in serious condition. It concerns a person who was on the scene and the perpetrator of the attack, who suffered injuries when he was stopped by the police.
“Absolute dastardly attack this morning in a park in Annecy. Children and an adult between life and death. The nation is traumatized,” President Emmanuel Macron tweeted.
The attack took place around 0745 GMT in Annecy, a mountain tourist town at the foot of the Alps, specifically in the Garden of Europe, a vast open area of meadows and forests with a lake used for rowing and other recreational activities.
The area, where numerous ambulances and police vehicles drove, remains cordoned off, according to television images.
Source: El heraldo
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